Gattuso CT of Italy: the announcement, the staff, the role of Prandelli

Lippi suddenly told his blues in Germany that he would go away immediately after the World Cup. Someone looked at him amazed, others were frightened for the future. But one went on him furious and took him by the neck (literally). “You have to stay!”, He shouted at him. “You have to stay”. Marcello Lippi has repeatedly recalled that 2006 scene: Gattuso was one of the favorite students, “the one in which I see me most – he often said -. Everyone identifies him with haggles and malice, instead his teams play very well. He wants the distribution from the bottom with quality, resembles me enough to me”.

Gravina-Gattuso interviews

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Not even Lippi would have imagined that one day Gattuso would take his place. We approach the day: Gattuso will be the new CT of Italy. Without still using the adverb “certainly” because, from Spalletti to Pioli to Ranieri, there was little “safe”. But it seems done. Consultations have entered the heart. Federal President Gravina has heard Gattuso several times on the phone. Talks to get to know ideas, names, projects. On the times of the agreement there are no margins: the FIGC offers a year, more option, so as not to bind with a three -year one if things do not take a positive turn. The salary should not exceed two million, like that of Spalletti.

New project

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At the center of everything is the project for the new Italy. Project that goes from a “team” of blue symbols (Buffon, Gattuso, Bonucci, Barzagli) and, in parallel, from the birth of a figure, the technical manager, who will take care of the youth sectors with methodologies and technology of which the under will benefit (whose manager will always be Maurizio Viscidi). Prandelli will also act as a connection with the national team A. Better “responsible” than “director” to avoid misunderstandings about his role. It will not be the supervisor of Gattuso, he will not play in the management of Italy, but he will work – on the field and the desk – to give the FIGC his sporting culture and his ideas, and create a new scenario in which young people are allowed to free talent. As happens in Spain, France, England, Germany. We have many young people, in recent years we have mortified their technical qualities in exchange for an obsessive education of tactics and discipline. Many automators, nobody who knows how to make a dribbling to the causio, accounts, donadoni, let’s not say Baggio.

Prandelli in the future

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Gattuso is the present, it is the emergency that must be treated with shock therapy. Prandelli is the key to the future, because perhaps, starting immediately, you could see a different Italy soon. We must not learn anything from anyone in making “team”, but a little more class, Rivera, Baggio, Del Piero. Totti, Pirlo, changes your life. Meanwhile, the shock that Oslo’s catatonic blues must receive will come from a team of former champions. The project includes Buffon Chief-Delegation, Gattuso CT, Bonucci and Barzagli in the staff, waiting for any location in the Under 21 for one of the two. Speech to be tackled later. Zambrotta and Perrotta will also enter the new group, other veterans since 2006.

next week

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On the times we are almost there. Also on the weekend the dialogue will continue: Gravina’s hope is to close with Gattuso by tomorrow, to announce the new CT on Monday, also communicating the meaning of the project and the role of Prandelli with which, yesterday, the president addressed the issues on the agenda. Presentation of Gattuso towards the next week.